warmer (table 3). There is a dominance of drying across the region, most notably ... and southern Colombia become wetter but northern Colombia and Venezuela become drier ... in the March to May season which accounts for nearly 35 % of Brazil's rainfall. The dry

are based on macroeconomic forecasts prepared by Standard & Poor’s DRI (DRI) [75]. The DRIforecast used in generating the AEO2001 reference case is the February 2000 ... (Figure 39). The high and low growth cases show the projected effects ... Figure 39. Projected average annual real growth rates of economic factors in three cases, 1999-2020 (percent) GDP Labor force Productivity High growth Reference Low growth

on the model: some models simulate drier conditions in Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia ... or the number of models included in any group. Palaeo-data from South America show drying ... those predicted by the group 1 models. A more quantitative assessment